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Chapter 10: The Price of Silence

Autor: Judy
last update Data de publicação: 2026-09-30 22:19:07

Amelia forgot how to breathe.

The world narrowed to the man sitting in the leather backseat of Victoria Blackwood’s car. The graying hair at his temples was new. The expensive, tailored suit looked unnatural on his frame. But the soft brown eyes—the eyes that used to crinkle at the corners when he read her bedtime stories—were entirely unmistakable.

"Dad?"

The word torn from her throat was a fragile, bleeding thing.

Daniel Hart flinched as if she had struck him. He opened his mouth, his face pa
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